Famous quotes by Activists

"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that"

Susan George, Activist

"The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction"

Susan George, Activist

"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this"

Susan George, Activist

"I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol"

Susan George, Activist

"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment"

Florence Kelley, Activist

"The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price"

David Korten, Activist

"Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay"

David Korten, Activist

"It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world"

David Korten, Activist

"If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining"

David Korten, Activist

"I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals"

Dorothy Height, Activist

"You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"We should be moving toward local currencies, not global or European currencies"

David Korten, Activist

"The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system"

David Korten, Activist

"The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy"

David Korten, Activist

"My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased, often faster than the wages"

David Korten, Activist

"We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists, and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility"

Dorothy Height, Activist

"Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"The First Amendment means everything to me"

Julian Bond, Activist

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